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Why not just add minerals to our fertilizers? Organics is such a regression after the green revolution (which has saved billions of lives).
by jryan49 7y ago
Why not just add minerals to our fertilizers? Organics is such a regression after the green revolution (which has saved billions of lives).
- bbarnett 7y agohttps://farmingfirst.org/2011/01/selenium-fortified-fertilizers-in-finland/ https://farmingfirst.org/2011/01/selenium-fortified-fertiliz... Apparently Finland made it mandatory, and it worked.
- aitchnyu 7y agoChuckled. HN taught me that nitrogen fixing used to be a natural bottleneck to human population growth and factory-made nitrates made calories cheaper and caused a population explosion. And farming practices left the land less suitable for feeding them.